Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 214, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1914 — Express. [ARTICLE]

Express.

A German princeling went to pay a visit of ceremony to a small but ancient and honorable city situated upon a branch line of railway. His serene highness had just stepped from his private car upon the bunting-bedecked station platform. Greetings had been exchanged with the local receiving party. “And what,” said the prince to the burgomaster, “are those children doing there on the tracks?” “Serene highness,” replied the burgomaster, bowing low, “those are the young maidens of the city who ran before and scattered flowers in front of the locomotive of your highness* train.”